The attached consultation document sets out the background to the proposed amendments, which will:
- permit registered therapeutic radiographers to independently prescribe medicines
- provide for registered dieticians to enter into supplementary prescribing arrangements
- include provisions in the Terms of Service to clarify that pharmacy contractors (or their staff) may refuse to provide pharmaceutical services to a person who is violent, threatens violence, commits or threatens to commit a criminal offence
- enable pharmacy contractors (or their staff) to refuse to supply pharmaceutical services if anyone accompanying the person seeking pharmaceutical services is violent, threatens violence, commits or threatens to commit a criminal offence